Non-refillable bottle.



E. E. FORD.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22. 1915.

Patented June 20, 1916.

ATTORNEY ELIOT E. FORD, 015 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2(1 1%16.

Application filed July 22, 1915. Serial No. 41,233.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIOT E. Form, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make, construct, and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in non-refillable bottles, and the object thereof is to provide a emptied, cannot again be refilled.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device, secured in the neck of a bottle, which will permit the contents of a bottle to be freely and readily emptied, but which will effectually prevent the bottle from being refilled, so that the bottle cannot be offered a second time as an original package.

The peculiar construction of the several parts are such as to'eifectually prevent tampering therewith, for the purpose of lifting the valve or otherwise permitting of the introduction of a liquid of any kind to replace that which has already been withdrawn from the bottle.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of the preferred form of my device, in place in a bottle neck. Fig. 2 represents a similar view showing the device in an inclined position. Figs. 3, 4:, 5 and 6 represent respectively, on an enlarged scale, transverse sections taken on lines 00-92, y-y, z-z and aa of Fig. 1 respectively, and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

The device proper consists of a cylindrical shell or casing 1, which may be held in the neck 2 of the bottle by frictional contact or by means of a cork packing or the'like 3, the shell being provided with a circumferential groove 4 formed therein by spinning bottle which having been or forcing the metal of the shell outwardly into intimate engagement with the packing, which may be done by suitable tools, or in any other convenient or desired manner. The upper edge of the shell or casing is preferably provided with a flaring opening 5, of a configuration corresponding with that of the mouth of a bottle. Fitted into or made integral with the lower end of the shell 1 is a valve seat 6, as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, said valve seat 6 being provided with suitable openings, and a tubular extension 7 having a flange 8. A spring-actuated valve 9, C0111- prising a disk 10 of smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the shell or casing 1, is by means of the valve stem 11, slidably secured in the tubular extension 7.

12 represents a head formed on the end of the valve stem 11, and interposed between the inner side of said head and the outer side of the flange 8 of the extension 7 is a spiral spring 13, designed to keep the inside of the valve disk 10 in contact with the inner or upper ide of the valve seat 6, so as to form a closure when the device is in the position as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

A -rotat(ble member 14, provided with aweighted extension 15, is rotatably mounted upon the tubular extension 7 of the valve seat 6, and pivotally secured to said extension is a float-supporting element 16, the free end of which carries in any convenient or desired manner a float 17.

A vane or centering element 18 is pivotally secured to the float-carrying member 16 in any desired or convenient manner, and of a dimension corresponding approximately with the dimension of the inside diameter of the neck of the bottle, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, sai'c vane serving the purpose of keeping the movable parts of the device below the easing 1, in the position indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and is only moved out of that position into the position indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, by the flow of the fluid when the bottle is tilted preparatory to removing some of the contents thereof, in which case, the lower part of the vane 18 which is designated by the numeral 19, is received into a out-away portion 20 of the float 17 The vane 18 and its position on the floatcarryingelement serves to steady the parts f of the device in the neck of the bottle, and to V flange 21, which may be an V 1 said sl1ell,jor' may be in the prevent' the same from being injured by being brought into forcible contact with the inside of the neck of the bottle by careless.

manipulation of" the bottle.

The cylindricalflshell or casing 1 is providedwith an inwardly-extending annular integral part of nature of an annular r ng; secured to the interior of the shell in any desired or convenient manner. A short distance above said shell 1, a battle- 'plate or disk 22, the outside diameter of which is a trifle larger than the inside diam I '15 r tionally secured to the interior of said shell eter of the said flange 21, is preferably, fricby means of three integral extensions 23, formedon said disk 22. This bafile-plate or disk 22,. together with the inwardly-extendingannular flange 21, provide means whereb the tam aerin with and mani ulation of y l b P the valve'd sk 10 from the exterior of the .bo'ttle is reduced to a properly'seat' itself upon the valve seat 6, ,and when so seated, will cover the: openings in said'valve' seat andkept so'seated by the ordinarily,

I minimum. 7 It will be-understood that the valve disk diameter that it will 10 ismade ofsuch a spiral spring 13.

- Any approved material may be employed i the eonstruction'of the various parts; however, they are made of metal,

' With the .exceptionfof the float, which is 7 preferably made of cork.

'fl'n'the operation of the device, when the bottle isinan upright position, theunder V ,sidefof the'valve disk "10 will rest upon the lipper surface of thevalve seat 6 and cover the 'openingstherein, thus preventing the liquid that may be pouredinthe top of the stopper passing into the bottle; and further- 7 more, the disk 22, together withthe inwardly-extending annular flange 21, will 7 q prevent any person tampering with the valve by means of a wire or like article.

Whenit is *e inFig. 2,-the liquid will act upon theunder side 0t thefloat 17, and the upper portion of t-he'vane 18, causing the float to rest against the neck of theinside of the bottle, moving the lower part 1 9 of the vane 18 into the out i away portion20of the float 17 and simulta- 'neously causing the upper 18 to impingeagainstthe rectangular exten part ofthe vane sion 24 of the float-carrying element 16, thus v desired to pour liquid from the bottle, when the bottle is inverted as shown liquid will pass through the openings in the valve seat 6 around the valve disk 10, through the annular flange 21 and through the annular opening formed between the bafie-plate or disk 22 and the shell or casing 1, from whence it will find an exit and likewise a ready exit from the bottle.

It will be observed that a stopper of this description is exceedingly economic; it is durable and practical, and may be applied to any form of bottle.

Experience has demonstrated that the organization above described is a highly ellicient one, and while the device described is the preferred embodiment of my present invention, I do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction and combination herein shown and described, as obvious modifications thereof, not involving the ex ercise of invention, may .be made by any skilled .mechanic, and such departures from what is herein shown. and described, I consider within the scope and terms of my claims.

I claim:

1. In combination with a bottle, within the neck of which is fitted a shell having a valve seat formed in its lower end, said valve seat being provided with a tubular extension, an inwardly extending annular flange located between said valve seat and the upper end of said shell, a valve having a stem to operate in said tubular extension of the valve seat, a weighted member rotatably mounted upon said tubular extension, a float-supporting element pivoted to one end of said rotatable member and a bafile plate located in said shell in close proximity to said inwardly extending annular flange.

2. In combination with a bottle, within the neck of which is fitted a shell having a valve seat formed in its lower end, said valve seat being provided with a tubular extensioman inwardly extending annular flange located between said valve seat and the upper end of said shell, a spring-actuated valve having a stem to operate in said tubular extension of the valve seat, a weighted member rotatably mounted upon said tubular exten sion, a float-supporting element pivoted to one end of said rotatable member, a centering element pivotally secured to. said floatsupport-ing element and a bafiie plate located in said shell in close proximity to said inwardly extending annular flange.

This specification signed and witnessed this 9th day of July, 1915.

V ELIOT E. FORD. VVitnesse's:

' CLIFFORD A, ALLISTON,

DOROTHY K. RIEHM.

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